Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anything you 'd like to have been able to keep about the past ? ’ |
| 2 | Not in the grocery , I suppose there would be , I mean erm as I say I was never thrilled with the clothing department and when I did get involved with the deals , er I 'm afraid I was a political animal and I would 've have been more interested in the political side . |
| 3 | And you must understand : to appreciate the pessimism I feel today you would need to have been present when I formed the optimism. , |
| 4 | His judgement of the situation would appear to have been correct , for this was undoubtedly Oblt . |
| 5 | Indeed , confirmation of a satisfactory legal outcome would appear to have been apparent during December last year when the legal Director of the EC Commission , Mr Dubois , wrote to the Association 's Solicitors , stating , ‘ … |
| 6 | This pleasure would appear to have been remote from the adult satisfactions mentioned in the previous paragraph and is a manifestation of the ‘ joie de vivre ’ which is at the very heart of the urge for life , which is itself the product of ‘ desire ’ as introduced and discussed in the Second Period . |
| 7 | The degree of professional autonomy would appear to have been higher in the United States than in Britain , and the imbalance in favour of specialist medicine over general practice or family medicine greater still . |
| 8 | Hannon 's prognosis of the Act , that ‘ LEAs will be able to draw the line between the ‘ statemented ’ and the ‘ unstatemented ’ where they please ’ , would appear to have been accurate . |
| 9 | Such a condition was obviously inserted to encourage Cornishmen to make their contributions to the royal coffers , but its enforcement against individual landowners would appear to have been impracticable once disafforestment had taken place . |
| 10 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 11 | After the war , most of Montparnasse would claim to have been intimate friends of Modigliani . |
| 12 | It is with regret and concern that I find myself moving to this resolution since the members as members of the European Community want would like to have been possible to travel freely between members states . |
| 13 | On selling players , I 'm sure he would like to have been able to keep Sheridan , Hendrie , Batty , and Cuntona , as well as keep all the current players and spend smoe millions on defenders . |
| 14 | No , though I would like to have been able to have played , I can remember saying to my mother once , I would like to have been able to have learnt the piano . |
| 15 | No , though I would like to have been able to have played , I can remember saying to my mother once , I would like to have been able to have learnt the piano . |
| 16 | If he 'd been following me he would have to have been close because I had gone straight to the camera , and I would have heard him , even in the wind . |
| 17 | Either it would have to have made six separate trips , which was mad , or else there would have to have been six jackdaws . |
| 18 | Linde 's idea of a slow breaking of symmetry was very good , but I later realized that his bubbles would have to have been bigger than the size of the universe at the time ! |
| 19 | It would have to have been one hell of a continuous storm , and there is nothing in my readings , satellite scan or computer print-out , to suggest that . ’ |
| 20 | However , for prevalence to have reached 1,305 by 1984–5 , starting from a very low endemic baseline in 1979 ( and assuming an acceleration in the incidence rate around 1982–3 ) , annual incidence would have to have been higher than 400 or 500 during 1984 and 1985 . |
| 21 | That master would seem to have been Taglioni , now filtered to us through the Bournonville version . |
| 22 | There would seem to have been little doubt , however , in Mr Justice Lindley 's mind . |
| 23 | Unlike the issue of sterling there would seem to have been little choice in the line of action to be followed . |
| 24 | But for the present it will suffice to say that on this matter Lanfranc , no less than Anselm , would seem to have been content to rely on the tradition of the Canterbury monks , supported by documents which gave historical support to the testimony of the living word . |
| 25 | These ‘ would seem to have been traditional at the time , for Ormandy did the same in his Philadelphia recording . |
| 26 | On the contrary , they would seem to have been involved in precisely the kind of political and military activity from which Jesus , according to later tradition , is dissociated . |
| 27 | If , on the other hand , an arthritic patient reported that the joint problems had cleared up but that she was becoming increasingly anxious and irritable , then the physician would be worried and would be certain that the wrong treatment had been given , even though , superficially , it would seem to have been effective . |
| 28 | Some sort of private grudge would seem to have been responsible ; Do you know of anyone who could have wished him harm ? |
| 29 | This event only lasted two days , but the amount of coinage and artefacts lost during that period would seem to have been enormous . |
| 30 | This , plus tax demands and a steady loss of communal land to corrupt mandarins and village notables , would seem to have been enough to produce this peasant revolt in whose heartland both Phan Boi Chau and Ho Chi Minh had been born . |